Joanne: 1334 books

Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a devout Christian, a proto-communist and a monarchical absolutist....

Australian bachelor Daniel Christie’s beloved grandfather is dying and Daniel knows there’s only way to make his last weeks happy ones – give him the one thing he’s always wanted – the promise of heirs. All Dan has to do is fall in love, have the wedding, follow it with lots of little Daniels...

Michael did not go to North Carolina looking for romance, he was all business, but he found it anyway among the campers and beaches of the Outer Banks. He soon learns however, that Lori comes as a complete package including her faith that he hasn’t had any use for since childhood. Lori is prepared...

In the first story in the series is It Started With The Dog Jennie and dog meet Sara and the interaction between them changes both their lives. New characters enter in the following stories but all of them deal with relationships, denial, cooking, grief, dogs, religious belief or not, becoming independent...

Two women who are at turning points in their lives are brought together by Jumbo, a small black dog. In the interaction between the teenager fleeing a bad relationship and the grieving detective novel fan they discover new directions for their lives. By the end of the story they have become close...

From riches to rags, Milena is growing up in the city of Prague at the turn of the twentieth century. Her parents' once prosperous theatre lies in disrepair and her life seems to be in ruins, and has been since that fateful night her father died in a tragic accident and Milena's beautiful, talented...

Stepping Out follows the Turning Points story The Roommate Dilemma. In this story Sara and Jennie are conflicted about trying to help Tina deal with her mooch of a boyfriend but how do you help someone who is in denial?. When will Tina face reality? Since Sara's part-time job is ending she seeks new...

Mothers and Daughters is the fourth story in the Turning Points series. The main characters all deal with mother/daughter relationships in different forms - the joys,sorrows and insights. Relates how the other characters are affected when Tina goes on a date that turns into a disaster. Question: how do you deal with a situation that involves someone else's mother/daughter relationship?

The Roommate Dilemma is a continuation of the story It Started with the Dog. Now Jennie and Tina, as roommates, have to deal with a man who resembles a sociopath and Sara has her own challenges. This story involves setting boundaries,gullibility and denial, testing friendships, guardian angels and a secret garden. A new dog - Heidi - enters the picture.

'I am a reading girl, with a pale face, and glasses. People who become enthralled by the world of books, as I am, are often thought to have dull lives, but I feel that my own life is made of the stuff of myth. Or anyway, I intend to make it so. So this is my story. It will be about birth + death and...

The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers—Fred D’Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff,...

4 Sci-Fi novels in 1: Exiled: Autumn's Peril by Rosalie Skinner...Hunted by off world assassins, haunted by ghosts, homesick for a planet light-years away, Caleath’s quest is to survive and escape. / Becoming NADIA by Cyrus Keith, Epic Winner..."What's one more little white lie?" Inspector of the...

Growing up in a time when parents could punish their children as they saw fit without anyone stepping in. The struggle of discovering ones' sexual identity and dealing with the problems that come with it.

*My mother Emma, when she was a girl, dreamed of love, and she got it. She got the days and nights of bliss and the heady fragrance-filled summers, and two more daughters. Emma dreamed of love, and she got it. And, finally she got the moments of sick despair when she went out into the garden...